With the recent flurry of migrations away from Windows 2003 you may see some migrated Group Policies (GPOs) reporting ghost settings for folder redirection or Internet Explorer Maintenance that no longer exist. Here’s how to remove them. Internet Explorer Maintenance Policies Internet Explorer Maintenance Policies were depreciated after IE9 and Microsoft made alternative options […]
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How to reset the sysprep rearm counter on Windows 2008 R2
Having trouble with deploying a VMware Windows 2008 R2 Template and it failing to sysprep? It could be you’ve sysprep’d the template image too many times. Here’s the fix.
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Using Outlook PSTs to manage Exchange Journaling Mailbox Size
One of the concerns I hear about enabling the journal mailbox (journaling), especially in smaller business, is the impact it will have on limited storage and how that can be managed – for minimum cost. File this one under cheap and cheerful – Outlook auto archive.
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Export and Import Persistent Routes into Windows 2012R2
In previous versions of Windows if you wanted to import a large number of persistent routes you could import them directly into the registry. This no longer works on Windows 2012R2 so here’s a simple method using excel to create the ROUTE ADD commands.
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The Dumb Reason Why I wasn’t Getting the Windows 10 Upgrade
So in preparation for Windows 10 I rebuilt my laptop but then I couldn’t get the Windows 10 upgrade icon to appear.
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Hybid Exchange – Bulk Email Domain Name Change
I recently had to amend a large number of users’ primary SMTP address to a new email domain in a hybrid exchange environment. Here’s a useful bulk methodology I developed using a CSV input file with the Exchange Management Shell.
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